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Heavy Call Action in Sallie Mae
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 4:17pm | 143Student lender, SLM Corp (NYSE: SLM), moved higher throughout the session today, ending up 6.72% at $13.18. There appears to be no real news out for the stock other than Fitch Maintaining a Stable Ratings Outlook for their Student Loan Trust 2006-6 Senior Notes; not the most groundbreaking of news...
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Stock Market News for April 8, 2010 - Market News
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 9:30am | 503Investors sold stocks and sent broader indices lower on an otherwise listless day after a senior Federal Reserve official said policy makers should not keep interest rates exceptionally low for too long. Prospects of higher interest rates unsettled traders. With no immediate solution to Greece’s...
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Top 5 Stocks In The Financial Sector With Highest ROE (ADS, CTC, MRH, AEA, RNR)
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 7:19am | 181Below are the top 5 finance stocks in terms of return on equity. The return on equity for Alliance Data Systems Corporation (NYSE: ADS) is 43.1%. BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage of ADS with a “market perform” rating. The return on equity for IFM Investments Limited (NYSE: CTC) is 42.47%....
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Top 5 Stocks In The Financial Sector With The Lowest PEG (IRS, ABR, PNX, NNI, TWGP)
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 6:29am | 165Below are the top 5 finance stocks in terms of PEG. IRSA Investments and Representations Inc (NYSE: IRS) has a PEG ratio of 0.01. IRS’ quarterly revenue growth is 44.30% y/y. Arbor Realty Trust Inc (NYSE: ABR) has a PEG ratio of 0.22. The trailing-twelve-month operating margins of ABR are 114.35...
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Stock Market News for April 6, 2010 - Market News
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 9:30am | 442After a long weekend investors came back rejuvenated and sent the Dow Jones industrial average within striking distance of psychologically important 11,000 mark. Investors, in their first reaction to Friday’s release of the jobs report, turned to stocks in increasing numbers as the employment...
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Top 5 Stocks In The Financial Sector With Lowest PEG (IRS, PNX, ABR, ENH, NNI)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 6:17am | 156Below are the top 5 financial stocks in terms of PEG. IRSA Investments and Representations Inc (NYSE: IRS) has a PEG ratio of 0.01. IRS’ quarterly revenue growth is 44.30% y/y. Phoenix Companies Inc (NYSE: PNX) has a PEG ratio of 0.22. PNX’s quarterly revenue growth is 35.50% y/y. Arbor Realty...
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Three Things Investors Need To Know About Obamacare
Friday, April 2, 2010 - 1:44pm | 2482Healthcare reform is now law. Over the next decade the government will reach further into the private sector than it ever has before. Despite the year of debate and non-stop selling of the program, there’s still a lot of uncertainty over the impact of the law. All politics aside, we know a few...
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Three Things Investors Need To Know About Obamacare
Friday, April 2, 2010 - 1:44pm | 2482Healthcare reform is now law. Over the next decade the government will reach further into the private sector than it ever has before. Despite the year of debate and non-stop selling of the program, there’s still a lot of uncertainty over the impact of the law. All politics aside, we know a few...
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Technicals Show Why It May Be Time To Sell This Financial ETF (UYG)
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 10:53pm | 851“For six months, The ProShares Ultra Financials ETF (UYG) traded within the confines of a rectangle bounded by support at $5 and resistance at $6.30,” Sam Collins Reports From Options Zone. On March 11, Collins said, “Following a period of very high accumulation, this ETF appears to be breaking...
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What To Expect From The Markets And ETFs When Interest Rates Rise
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 1:46pm | 1759“When the next tightening cycle begins, it will not be to throttle an economy that is growing too fast. Instead, it will be to rebalance rates to more reasonable levels. The Economy may be less vulnerable when they begin to tighten, but it will not be too strong. That is a material difference, and...
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Buybacks Of The Decade (IBM, MSFT, COP, C, T, AXP, WMT, MO, BAC, MCD, DELL, PEP, HPQ)
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 7:39am | 584According to an article on CNBC, investors tend to view buybacks announced as a sign of a company's confidence in its growth prospects. Some of the biggest stock repurchases of the decade are: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT): The transaction value of MSFT’s buyback of 1.22 billion shares was $36.2 billion...
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Benzinga’s Volume Movers (VTIV, CATM, APOL, MLNX, OZRK)
Monday, March 29, 2010 - 3:03pm | 255inVentiv Health Inc (NASDAQ: VTIV) shares jumped 9.67% to $22. The volume of VTIV shares traded was 599% higher than normal. VTIV confirmed that it had been approached by a potential buyer. Read more about this company here. Cardtronics Inc (NASDAQ: CATM) shares climbed 9.97% to $13.02. The volume...
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The Government’s Mortgage Modification Program May Hurt The Bottom Line Of The Banks In The Financial ETF
Monday, March 29, 2010 - 2:21pm | 2492“Citigroup (NYSE: C) announced on Thursday that it would join the government’s program to modify second mortgages, following Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), JP Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) and others, as the housing market appears to be at the beginning of a second...
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Reduce Your Risk In The Initial Public Offering Market With This IPO ETF
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 7:56pm | 2056“Everybody loves the romance of an IPO — a company going public with the potential to deliver huge profits to those investors on the ground floor. But the reality of initial public offerings are very different than the storybook version some traders believe. Trying to research these tiny upstarts...
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U.S. Credit Card Industry Update (BAC, JPM, MA, V, C)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 9:49am | 204Credit Suisse has released an update on the U.S. Credit Card industry in its Tech Daily report on Tuesday. According to the report, credit card acquisition mail volume remained high in February, rising 94% from a year ago to 261 million pieces. Credit Suisse has raised its 2010 mail volume...